Cleaning up after using corrosive ammo

[RBruce]

What is the ratio of ammonia to water that should be used to rinse barrels after using corrosive ammo (LC 52, etc.)? --TIA

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[Emri]

......you can use soap, ammonia, or whatever you want to add. I don't know a ratio.

All you really need to dissolve the salts is boiling hot water. That will flush the salts and self dry very quickly. Then clean and oil as any other rifle used with NC ammo.

Make yourself a funnel like the one below and you will have it made!!

HTH,

Emri

[Lancebear]

......you can use soap, ammonia, or whatever you want to add. I don't know a ratio.

All you really need to dissolve the salts is boiling hot water. That will flush the salts and self dry very quickly. Then clean and oil as any other rifle used with NC ammo.

Make yourself a funnel like the one below and you will have it made!!

HTH,

Emri

Hey Emri,

Did you make the funnel? If ya' did and could make more I'd like one. Cost prohibitive? A blued or parked rig would be cool. Maybe you could post instructions on how to make one? I'm handy and love a project.

I use hot water and a little soap, then the usual routine with Hoppe's. I have read a few times lately that Hoppe's alone is good, no hot water. In your opinion is that true?

Death to corrosion,

Lancebear

[Emri]

Emri,
I'm tired of preaching to the crowd. A good flush of hot water does the trick and other additives may help the final cleaning out of copper fouling but the hot water does the job on corrosive primers. Thanks for the reinforcement!

Hey Emri,

Did you make the funnel? If ya' did and could make more I'd like one. Cost prohibitive? A blued or parked rig would be cool. Maybe you could post instructions on how to make one? I'm handy and love a project.

I use hot water and a little soap, then the usual routine with Hoppe's. I have read a few times lately that Hoppe's alone is good, no hot water. In your opinion is that true?

Death to corrosion,

Lancebear

After looking at a posting about corrosive primers a couple weeks ago I remembered recently seeing this auction and posting the same pic there. The funnel is part of an accessory kit that came with a cased British sporting rifle.

Pattern14, look about 4/5 down the auction page. The cleaning instructions are posted inside the case!

http://www.auctionarms.com/search/di...8962&oh=216543

Lancebear, no, Hoppes alone is no good. The older bore formulas were water based and would work, but you had to repeat until all salts were removed. Hot water porued down the bore should be enough to get it all first time.

A funnel like shown shouldn't be hard to make. Steel parts that would blue or parkerize wouldn't be practical. Hard to work and will rust to boot. Make one if you are handy with a fired brass cartridge case, a length of copper tubing, and a funnel. Drill out the primer pocket to the OD of the tubing, bend the tubing to clear the reciever, add an inexpensive tin funnel from the local hardware store. Glue or solder the 3 parts together and you are done. If you want, you can have it plated for looks, but that would be cost prohibitive and not necessary for function. I would almost guarantee that is how the one pictured was made, but they probably used a copper funnel and soldered the parts together.

HTH,

Emri

[Lancebear]

After looking at a posting about corrosive primers a couple weeks ago I remembered recently seeing this auction and posting the same pic there. The funnel is part of an accessory kit that came with a cased British sporting rifle.

Pattern14, look about 4/5 down the auction page. The cleaning instructions are posted inside the case!

http://www.auctionarms.com/search/di...8962&oh=216543

Lancebear, no, Hoppes alone is no good. The older bore formulas were water based and would work, but you had to repeat until all salts were removed. Hot water porued down the bore should be enough to get it all first time.

A funnel like shown shouldn't be hard to make. Steel parts that would blue or parkerize wouldn't be practical. Hard to work and will rust to boot. Make one if you are handy with a fired brass cartridge case, a length of copper tubing, and a funnel. Drill out the primer pocket to the OD of the tubing, bend the tubing to clear the reciever, add an inexpensive tin funnel from the local hardware store. Glue or solder the 3 parts together and you are done. If you want, you can have it plated for looks, but that would be cost prohibitive and not necessary for function. I would almost guarantee that is how the one pictured was made, but they probably used a copper funnel and soldered the parts together.

HTH,

Emri

I could do it, ACE would have everything I would need cept' the cartridge. Might have that.

LB

[Pattern14]

Emri,
I'm tired of preaching to the crowd. A good flush of hot water does the trick and other additives may help the final cleaning out of copper fouling but the hot water does the job on corrosive primers. Thanks for the reinforcement!

[Calif-Steve]

Hot water with a little soap. The soap isn't necessary but it helps. Good luck.

[RBruce]

I like to clean the rifle at the range rather than wait the hour or more til I get home.

[jmoore]

Water, Hot! Other ingredients to flavor as desired.

Ammonia is for copper fouling.

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[Calif-Steve]

Hoppe's No 9 is no good alone. They changed their formula years ago. Same time when corrosive primers disappeared in the USA.